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Americans Want Next President to Prioritize Jobs, Corruption

owest priorities are taxing wealthy and environmental problemsy Jeffrey M. Jones

RINCETON, NJ -- Creating good jobs, reducing corruption in the federal government, and reducing the federal budget deficit

core highest when Americans rate 12 issues as priorities for the next president to address. Americans assign much less

mportance to increasing taxes on wealthy Americans and dealing with environmental concerns.

he results are based on a July 19-22 USA Today/Gallup poll. Job creation's position at the top of the list is consistent witharious measures of issue salience or importance Gallup has asked this year. Corruption in government usually ranks as an

mportant issue when it is asked about specifically, though it is not as top-of-mind as jobs or the economy.

n addition to jobs, corruption, and the deficit, Americans also give relatively high priority to dealing with terrorism and other

nternational threats, ensuring the long-term stability of Social Security and Medicare, and improving the nation's public scho

bama, Romney Supporters in Accord on Job Creation, Corruption

upporters of Barack Obama and Mitt Romney likely disagree on how best to address the major issues facing the country, but

oth rate job creation and reducing government corruption among their top priorities for the next president.

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omney supporters rate reducing the federal budget deficit as more important than Obama supporters do. In fact, slightly mo

omney supporters say reducing the deficit is extremely important (51%) than say creating jobs is (48%).

ikewise, 50% of Obama supporters assign high importance to making healthcare available and affordable, two percentage po

more than their rating of any other issue.

bama and Romney supporters differ most on healthcare, dealing with environmental concerns, increasing taxes on the weal

nd education. All of these are much higher priorities for Obama supporters than for Romney supporters. The deficit is the on

sue that has a large party difference with Romney supporters saying it is more important.



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lthough there is a large difference in the relative importance of dealing with environmental concerns and increasing taxes on

ealthy Americans, these issues are the lowest priorities for both Romney and Obama supporters.

n addition to job creation and corruption, there are relatively small differences in importance for terrorism and setting high

moral standards.

mplications

mericans' to-do list for the president on Jan. 20, 2013 -- whether it be Obama or Romney -- includes creating good jobs, redu

overnment corruption, and reducing the federal budget deficit. Supporters of both candidates agree about the importance of j

nd corruption, while the deficit is a higher priority for Romney supporters than Obama supporters. In turn, Obama supporte

elieve the next president should have healthcare, Social Security and Medicare, and public education among his highest

riorities.

ob creation has certainly been and will continue to be a major topic during the remainder of the campaign. And both candida

ill surely need to outline their plans for reducing the federal budget deficit. However, it is unclear whether governmentorruption will become a major issue in the campaign, even though Americans see reducing it as an important goal.

he candidate who Americans think has the better plans on each of these issues will have an advantage. As of now, Americans

elieve Romney is better able to handlejobs and the deficit than Obama is. Still, the two candidates remain locked in a tight ra

ithvoters' presidential preferences evenly divided.

rack every angle of the presidential race onGallup.com's Election 2012 page.

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Survey Methods

Results for this USA Today/Gallup poll are based on telephone interviews conducted July 19-22, 2012, with a random sample of 1,030 adult

aged 18 and older, living in all 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia.

For results based on the total sample of national adults, one can say with 95% confidence that the maximum margin of sampling error is 4

percentage points.

nterviews are conducted with respondents on landline telephones and cellular phones, with interviews conducted in Spanish for responden

who are primarily Spanish-speaking. Each sample includes a minimum quota of 400 cell phone respondents and 600 landline respondents p

1,000 national adults, with additional minimum quotas among landline respondents by region. Landline telephone numbers are chosen at

random among listed telephone numbers. Cell phone numbers are selected using random-digit-dial methods. Landline respondents are chos

at random within each household on the basis of which member had the most recent birthday.

Samples are weighted by gender, age, race, Hispanic ethnicity, education, region, adults in the household, and phone status (cell phone

only/landline only/both, cell phone mostly, and having an unlisted landline number). Demographic weighting targets are based on the March

2011 Current Population Survey figures for the aged 18 and older non-institutionalized population living in U.S. telephone households. All

reported margins of sampling error include the computed design effects for weighting and sample design.

n addition to sampling error, question wording and practical difficulties in conducting surveys can introduce error or bias into the findings of

public opinion polls.

View methodology, full question results, and trend data.



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